I have this chat app window, top JTextPane is where incoming messages
from other chatters appear (standard chat window behavior..) prob is
that window 'refreshes' text every 30 seconds (to display incoming
messages), and b/c it refreshes every 30 seconds can't copy any selected

Is it possible to be able to allow users to use either the left or the right
mouse button to select one or more
rows in a JTable, and upon the selection, be able to tell which mouse button
they used to select the row(s)?

I have this JApplet for a chat app window.. that I did w/much help from
some people here, esp Michael Dunn, Andrew...  :)  now it turns out I
have to do it EMBEDDED in browser, not in its own window (so now it's a
JApplet, not a JFrame..)  I'm assuming this means that ...

I'm writing a program which involves drawing several copies of the same
image inside of a JPanel.  I have a listener on the mouse wheel to
"zoom in/out", so that every image scales up or down in size at the
same time.  I'm having many problems getting this to run smoothly.

why is this being ignored..
  textAreaTop.setAlignmentY(textAreaTop.BOTTOM_ALIGNMENT)
have tried to use this method a no. of times, it never works.. what
other way is there, pls, to set text alignment..  thank you..

Just thought I'd get a consensus of how other developers handle actions
and what they prefer.
As far as I see it there are many methods to handle actions on e.g. a
JButton.

Hi everybody, I'm Luca.
I have a doubt about the java event model (jdk1.4.2):
In Motif all modifications to the widgets properties have to be made
from inside the event loop through some callback; if an external task

Has anyone ran into the problem of trying to get a GUI component's
graphics converted into an array of ints (or, even better, bytes)?
I've tried doing this by having the component paint() its graphics on a
java.awt.image.BufferedImage and then using a

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I have two text panes, one on top of window other one below (this is for
an IM window..)
I'm trying to set it up so when window opens focus is on bottom text
pane (where users type msgs)

This is largely off-topic but might be educational on some aspect.
A major percentage of beginners' Swing code use show() method for
JFrame visibility. Of course it gets compiler warning.
Why on earth youngest generation keep using an old deprecated API

I have an application (an MDI) that has embedded tab boxes , edit
areas, and  other frames that all get tweaked by the user via adjusting
the different areas of the MDI to the sizes of that user's preferrences
This allows the user to view many sections of the document at once.

How can i differentiate between double click and single click?
if i get single click i didn't want to get double click?
and if i get double click i didn't want to get single click?
I hereby use one timer to delay until the double click occurs...

I have been searching for some help since 1 month in various forums and
now Iam here expecting something good for me.
I want to develop an editor similar to the one in ECLIPSE with all the
features in eclipse like syntax auto-fill and help etc.

In my applet, I have trace statements in focusGained/lost methods
indicating isEventDispatchThread value, the component and opposite
component associated with the event, as well as the current focus owner
and the permanent focus owner. I'm finding that on a focus gain, the